Eats Beat: Wild Salsa, Chop House Burger headed to Fort Worth

Actually, we do. At least, if they’re at restaurants like Wild Salsa and the Dallas-based Chop House Burger.

Two restaurants owned by the same company will share side-by-side space in the new One City Place building, luring diners from Sundance Square west to Throckmorton Street.

Wild Salsa, popular in downtown Dallas, serves a Mexico City-style menu and has a Dia de Los Muertos theme.

Street tacos, tortas and quesadillas are menu basics. There’s also a brunch with chilaquiles verdes and a banana-pecan French toast.

Wild Salsa’s menu was engineered by chef Kelly Hightower. The new location will open by the winter holidays at 100 Throckmorton St.

Next door is the same company’s Chop House Burger, making a quick reputation in Euless for all-natural burgers on fresh brioche buns, shakes such as the vanilla-Nutella “Italian Nut Job” and either regular or truffle-Parmesan fries.

The Wine Country burger (goat cheese and honey mustard) is a signature, but the newest pick is the El Luchador with tostadas, pico de gallo and serrano peppers.

(This is the Chop House from Dallas and Euless, not the one from Arlington.)

For the record, Massey’s poet laureate Dan Jenkins has a solid favorite chicken-fried steak to replace it: Mac’s Bar & Grill in Arlington or Mac’s Steaks & Seafood in Colleyville, leaving that city Aug. 28 and moving to historic Main Street in Grapevine.

The Mac’s restaurants, originally founded by a former owner from Midland, are devoted to a lightly battered, fork-friendly chicken-fried steak.

A worthy new chicken-fried to try is at Matt’s Rancho Martinez in Colleyville, serving a flour-battered, pan-fried steak similar to Dallas’ old Gennie’s Bishop Grill recipe.

Best in Fort Worth? Jenkins told Star-Telegram reporter Bill Hanna he’s OK with West Side Cafe.